Forthcoming concerts:
Bach on Thursdays
Douglas Mews - organ
Penelope Evison - baroque flute
12.45pm Thursday May 9th St Mary of the Angels, Wellington
Sonata in A for flute and obbligato keyboard, prelude and fugue in C ('great').
Organ Recital - Douglas Mews
7.30pm Sat May 25th St John's Islington, London
50th anniversary of the Walker Organ, which was inaugurated in 1963 by Douglas K. Mews (1918-1993).
Harpsichord Recital - Douglas Mews
1pm Thurs May 30th Bate Gallery, Oxford
Handel and Eccles harpsichord suites played on the William Smith harpsichord (c.1720) from the Oxford University Bate Collection. Click here to find out more: http://www.bate.ox.ac.uk/smith-harpsichord.html
Douglas on Youtube
Great Australasian Organs VIII
Wellington Town Hall
Priory Records
Lemare - Marche Moderne
Kaihau - Akoako o te Rangi
Ketelbey - Chinese Temple Garden
Bossi - Pastorale & Invocazione
Handel - Suite in G minor HWV432
Mozart - Andante K616 & Gigue K574
Brahms - O Gott, du frommer Gott; Schmucke dich, o liebe seele
Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet *
(arr. Lemare)
Price NZ$20 plus p & p
*Sample on youtube
CD Recordings - email douglasmews@gmail.com to order
The Lost Chord
Wellington Town Hall Organ
(just released)
Sullivan - The Lost Chord*
Ketelbey - In a Persian Market*
Ketelbey - In a Monastery Garden
Bach - Sheep may safely graze
Bach - Prelude and Fugue in G BWV 541
Franck - Prelude, Fugue & Variation
Franck - Pièce Héroïque
Wagner - Song to the Evening Star
Warlock - Pieds-en-l'air
Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre
Price NZ$20 plus p & p
* Samples on youtube
Haydn piano trios with flute
Classical Chrome:
Douglas Mews - fortepiano
Penelope Evison - 6 keyed flute
Euan Murdoch - classical cello
Trio in G, Hob.XV:15
Trio in F, Hob.XV:17
Trio in D, Hob.XV:16
Available from:
http://concordance.net.nz/hayden_classical_chrome.htm
Organ Recital
recorded live at the
Katharinenkirche, Braunschweig
Sweelinck - Onder een Linde Groen
Mews - Variations on Salutis Humanae Sator*
Buxtehude - Passacaglia in d*
Bach - Sonata 3 in d
Bach - Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier
Bach - Passacaglia and Fugue in c
Price NZ$20 plus p & p
*Samples on youtube
Douglas Mews - Biographical Note
Douglas Mews, former Wellington City Organist, began playing the organ at St Patrick's Cathedral in Auckland, where his father (and first organ teacher) Dr Douglas Mews was choir conductor in the 1970's. Private lessons with Kenneth Weir followed, and then university study with the late Anthony Jennings, graduating from Auckland University in 1979 with a Masters degree in organ and harpsichord. He then continued his harpsichord studies with Bob van Asperen at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague, and later expanded his interest in historical keyboards to include the fortepiano.
He is currently Artist Teacher in organ and harpsichord at the New Zealand School of Music in Wellington, broadcasts for Concert FM and directs the music at St Teresa’s church in Karori. In 2010 he recorded a CD on the Wellington Town Hall organ for Priory Records’ ‘Great Australasian Organs’. His most recent CD is 'The Lost Chord', also recorded at the Wellington Town Hall.
On May 25th 2013, at 7.30pm, Douglas will give a recital on the 50th anniversary of the Walker organ at St John the Evangelist R.C. Church in Islington, London, the same instrument on which his father, Dr Douglas Mews, gave the opening recital in February 1963. A few audience members from the opening recital are still alive, remembering most of all the bitterly cold church. Winter of that year was one of the coldest on record, being officially known as 'The Big Freeze of 63'.
At 1pm on May 30th, Douglas will give a recital at the Bate Gallery in Oxford on a William Smith harpsichord from about 1720, believed to have been Handel's own harpsichord, since it exactly resembles the instrument in Philippe Mercier's portrait of the composer. (Click here to find out more: http://www.bate.ox.ac.uk/smith-harpsichord.html )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Mews
Douglas Mews
Organist - Harpsichordist - Period Pianist
Wellington City Organist
Artist Teacher at the New Zealand School of Music
Organist at St Teresa's RC Church, Karori
Freelance performer
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